Lydia Stahlecker Weisshaar --  1970

  Funeral services were held Nov. 9 for Mrs. Lydia Weisshaar at Zion Lutheran Church in Newberg, Ore.  Pastor Edwin E. Sandvig officiated at the services.  Pallbearers were Stanley Gaiblei, Douglas Gaibler, David Remillard, Ronald Bauder, Richard Schaal and Gary Schaal.

    Mrs. Lydia Weisshaar was born Aug. 8, 1889 in Tripp, S.D., to Martin Stahlecker and his wife, Katherina.  As a child she moved with her family to Bethune where she grew up.  She was baptized as a child and on Feb. 8, 1903 she was confirmed in Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Bethune.

    Dec. 26, 1911 she was married to John Weisshaar in Bethune where they made their home on a farm until May, 1935 when the family moved to Newberg, Ore. She was an active member of Zion Lutheran Church.  Her husband preceded her in death on Feb. 7, 1967.

   The past 19 months Mrs. Weisshaar has made her home with her daughter and son-in-law, Frieda and Robert Bauder in Newberg.  Mrs. Weisshaar died in the Newburg hospital on Thursday, Nov. 5.

   There are eight children surviving: 2 sons, Bernard of McMinnville  and Ruben of Newberg; 6 daughters, Frieda Bauder and Martha Gaibler of Newberg, Erna Schaal of Burlington, Anna Hendricks of Sheridan, Ore., Alvina Schaal of Yakima, Wash., and Ruthena Reu of North Bend, Ore.; 1 daughter, Emma, died at the age of two weeks.  Also surviving are 35 grandchildren, 25 great grand-children, 1 sister, Barbara Adolf of Burlington and many nephews and nieces.

    Mrs. Erna Schaal returned Nov. 9 from Oregon where she attended the funeral.